Assembly/AU/Dec.508(XXII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE REPORT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT ORIENTATION COMMITTEE (HSGOC) ON NEPAD Doc. Assembly/AU/6(XXII) The Assembly, 1. NOTES WITH APPRECIATION the report by the Chairperson of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC), H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal. 2. ENDORSES the conclusions of the Thirtieth Session of the HSGOC. 3. REITERATES the overriding importance for NEPAD to speed up the actualization of Africa’s development objectives in the context of Agenda 2063 as the African Union long-term strategy by focusing on industrialization, youth employment, improved natural resource governance and the reduction of inequalities. 4. WELCOMES AND ADOPTS the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) Strategic Plan: 2014-2017 which is inspired by the AU Agenda 2063 and based on the Commission’s Strategic Plan for similar period. CALLS UPON Member States, Regional Economic Communities, African regional and global partner institutions to support the Agency in the implementation of the Plan. 5. FURTHER ENDORSES the NPCA programmatic activities and initiatives undertaken in 2013 NOTING IN PARTICULAR the measures taken to fulfill the core mandate of facilitating and coordinating key programmes with particular reference to Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition and Infrastructure. COMMENDS the implementation work of the NPCA which has energized regional and continental programme delivery. 6. RECALLS the Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.488(XXI) based on the conclusions of 29th HSGOC on Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) for NEPAD programmes/projects and NOTES WITH SATISFACTION the finalization of the Study Report. URGES the NPCA and UNECA in conjunction with UNDP, AfDB and UNCTAD to engage Member States and stakeholders on the dissemination of the proposed Study conclusions and findings through relevant Ministries of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, private sector organizations and the investment community. 7. HIGHLY COMMENDS the impressive update on the progress towards implementing the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI) presented by H.E. Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa and Chairperson of the HSGOC PICI High-Level Sub Committee including the status of the NorthSouth Corridor with additional briefings by H.E. Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline; H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda on the East Africa Community